New Environmentalism In The New Republic

Ted Norhaus and Mike Shellenberger, founders of the Breakthrough Institute, have written a thought-provoking article in the New Republic about the nature of current environmentalism and what happens when good green intentions run up against hard times. George Will wrote about it extensively in one of his recent columns, although his take on the article may not have been exactly what the authors had in mind. I recommend both articles to you.

Disclosure - Mike Shellenberger is my cousin. I'll see him at the Yoder reunion this weekend. But you should still read his and Norhaus' material, because they're two of the most iconoclastic writers in the environmental movement.